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Towards a Formal Foundation for DeMarco Data Flow Diagrams*


Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
In this paper, we describe a proposal for formalising data flow diagrams through extended Petri nets. We illustrate the usefulness of the approach by describing how it can be used to analyse the consistency of requirements specifications.
Received July 1986. revised September 1987.
* This research was supported in part by a Hong Kong and China Gas Research Grant and a University of Hong Kong Research Grant.
Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong